- Subject
- Microscopy
- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Purchased from Tesseract, 25 July 2014.
- Primary inscriptions
- Printed label inside lid: "IMPROVED | PORTABLE COMPOUND MICROSCOPE, | For the Parlour, Garden, or Sea-Side." Stamped inside lid of accompanying box of slides "PRIMAVESI BROS | OPTICIANS, | BOURNEMOUTH".
- Dimensions
- Height: 21mm Width: 63mm Depth: 30mm Weight: 43g
- Inventory No
- 14591
- Accession Number
- 2014-4/4
Description
Card box containing copper alloy microscope tube with mahogany handle, and accompanying card box of 12 prepared slides with French and English manuscript captions, and one glass slide.
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